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Thursday, September 6 at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia

No update today.

Friday, September 7 at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia

The 14th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership talks continued in Leesburg, Virginia, today. Negotiating groups meeting for the second day in a row discussed technical barriers to trade, rules of origin, non-conforming measures, e-commerce, and legal issues; the labor negotiating group and the competition negotiating group began their meetings today.

Negotiators will work through the weekend. Beginning meetings tomorrow will be the groups dedicated to intellectual property rights issues and cross-border trade in services.

Saturday, September 8 at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia

On Sunday, September 9, negotiations will break at midday to allow negotiators to engage stakeholders who have accepted the invitation of the U.S. government to be on-site at the talks here in Virginia. Altogether, more than 450 stakeholders representing nearly 250 organizations have registered; this represents significant growth since the United States began inviting stakeholders to be on-site at the talks.

More than 90 organizations are choosing to speak with negotiators one-on-one or in small groups in presentation spaces at a three-hour direct engagement event between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Sunday; 60 stakeholders are choosing to make brief lecture-style presentations to negotiators during this time. USTR is hosting four rooms for lecture presentations to accommodate those who wish to make them. Per earlier email announcements, all stakeholder engagement events are open to press who have pre-registered for a TPP Round 14 credential.

Sunday’s participants in the direct engagement event are expected to be as follows:

Sunday, September 9 at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia

On Sunday, September 9th, USTR welcomed hundreds of stakeholders to the 14th Round of Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia. Stakeholders and staff members from 11 congressional offices engaged with negotiators from the 9 TPP member countries in direct discussions and through lecture-style presentations, and then gathered for a briefing from chief negotiators of the TPP member countries. A full report on today’s events will be posted on http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/blog/2012/september/ - but here’s an overview:

More than 450 stakeholders representing nearly 250 organizations registered to be on-site during the TPP round, and more than 150 of those signed up to host a table or give a talk at today’s three-hour engagement events. Participating organizations included the National Association of Manufacturers, Public Citizen, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Dairy Export Council, Public Knowledge, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), the National Pork Producers Council, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cato Institute, and labor organizations from the Communications Workers of America to the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) – a full list of registrants can be found here.

At the subsequent stakeholder briefing, U.S. Chief Negotiator Barbara Weisel provided a brief overview on the status of the negotiations and opened the floor to questions on issues ranging from transparency, investment policies, access to medicines, tariffs and the environment.

Negotiations were halted during the stakeholder events to ensure that negotiators from all nine TPP countries could attend. Negotiating groups meeting at other times today were environment, rules of origin, labor, intellectual property rights, cross-border trade in services, telecomm, trade remedies, investment, and technical barriers to trade; bilateral meetings on market access issues also continued today.

Monday, September 10at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia

The 14th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership talks is continuing in Leesburg, Virginia. Negotiating groups meeting on Monday, September 10 were the environment, textiles, trade remedies, labor, intellectual property rights, services, telecommunications, legal issues, and investment groups, as well as chief negotiators from the nine TPP countries: Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam.

Tuesday, September 11at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia

Meeting on Tuesday, September 11, were the environment, sanitary and phytosanitary issues, rules of origin and market access, labor, intellectual property rights, financial services and non-conforming measures, telecommunications, legal issues, and investment groups, as well as chief negotiators. Bilateral meetings to discuss market access are continuing today as well.

Wednesday, September 12at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia

The 14th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership talks continues in Leesburg, Virginia. Negotiating groups meeting on Wednesday, September 12 were the environment, sanitary and phytosanitary issues, textiles and rules of origin and customs, market access, labor, financial services and non-conforming measures, telecommunications, legal issues, and investment groups, as well as chief negotiators from from the nine TPP countries.

Thursday, September 13at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia

Meeting today, September 13, will be negotiating groups discussing temporary entry, sanitary and phytosanitary issues, customs, market access, intellectual property rights, financial services and non-conforming measures, government procurement, legal issues, and investment, as well as the chief negotiators. Various bilateral meetings are also continuing throughout the week.

Friday, September 14at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia

Coming soon!

Saturday, September 15at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations in Leesburg, Virginia